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A lot of people are not progressing through the season, like on Netflix, but are glancing it during programmed television. It's important to brand identity and recognition by outsiders of glance-watchers. Quick, attach a category filter, before mod-bot arrives!

No. Your immune system will reject organs it doesn't recognize. Healing factor includes a hyperactive immune system, so Wolverine's blood will fail to recognize you and fight you off. His blood is poisonous. Wade Wilson was given his healing factor, but that was a much more complex process than a blood transfusion.

In the MCU the scientists were most like looking for lost Hydra technology after WWII after discovering a weird signal coming from that location. Shield has been known to be researching Hydra tech before the New York Invasion and was most likely following some leads. Finding Captain America was a byproduct of looking for technology.

The regeneration process for each tissue type in our body is very different. Some types of tissues are able to regrow very fast either because the cells they are composed of are proliferative, or because they have adult stem cell pools associated with the tissue. Skin is an example of a tissue that is composed of highly proliferative cells (fibroblasts and epithelial cells). Muscle has an associated stem cell population called satellite cells that are activated during muscle regeneration and differentiate into (that is, change irreversibly into) muscle fibers, while also maintaining their own population. Bone is somewhat special among tissue types in that it is composed primarily of a hard, calcium-based extracellular matrix that is secreted by cells called osteoblasts rather than of the cells themselves, so when bone is injured, osteoblasts secrete more matrix to heal the bone. The adult stem cell precursors of osteoblasts (and several other cell types), bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells, are also found in significant numbers in adults. There is an obvious evolutionary advantage to these tissue types' ability to heal quickly: skin, as our outer layer of defense against the pathogens of the outside world, needs to be able to cover any abrasions quickly, while muscle and bone accumulate damage as they are used (especially muscle - damage and subsequent repair is the mechanism by which muscle grows after exercise). Other cell types, such as nerve cells or pancreatic islet cells, are post-mitotic, which means they no longer proliferate under normal conditions. This means that if these cells die, new cells are not formed. Also, the structures you mentioned, limbs and eyes, are very complicated structures composed of more than one tissue type arranged in specific geometrical relationships with one another. Regenerating an entire structure like this requires coordinated action between different cell types. Studying the mechanisms by which these complicated structures are formed during embryonic development, and hopefully discovering ways to apply them to adults using stem cell therapies (either embryonic stem cell therapies or stem cell therapies leveraging the populations of adult stem cells that are present in our bodies), are active areas of research central to a discipline of biomedical research called regenerative medicine. Source: Bioengineering student at UC Berkeley, with a focus on cell and tissue engineering. Working in a stem cell lab.

These sites can't police every single post. If one is brought to their attention they deal with it, but sites like Facebook and Tumblr get literally thousands of posts a minute. Users are generally responsible for the content they post, not the hosting site as long as they've got policies in place to handle inappropriate posts. If you're a 16 year old girl posting nudes to your Tumblr feed you're more likely to get in trouble for than they are.

It’s a bad idea to engage in battle with an opponent who can fight back when you’re living in anarchy and have no medical system. The Humungus wanted the refinery, not a fight where his gang could get depleted.

Imagine a beach with 2 drink stands, one in the middle of the left half of the beach and 1 in the middle of the right half. That would be optimal. Lets say the drink stand from the right half moves to the middle of the whole beach. Now he gets all the customers of the right half and some from the left. Consequently the left drink stand is now forced to also move to the middle if he doesnt want to lose out on business

In all likelihood, nothing. Gandalf knew Bilbo had some kind of magical ring for many years before he discovered it was actually the One Ring. In fact, Gandalf was probably *more* suspicious of the ring's potential influence because Bilbo would never have ordinarily tried to conceal its existence or lie about how he acquired it.

Any square-jawed male with solid morals can do that. It's very similar to how action movie heroes only take grazes from automatic weapon fire, and when they do take a bullet they can survive and keep fighting with minimal first aid.

More than likely your body is dehydrated from trying to make you not sick, and a shower helps rehydrate you, if only a little bit. Plus, if your ailment has something to do with your sinuses, the hot steam of the shower will help alleviate some of the build up in there.

Well, one thing to keep in mind is that Palpatine completely coaxed Anakin out of his shell only to manipulate the young jedi's vulnerability and fear (which the Jedi's could not help him quell). Right here we see that Sidious does not care about the person the is Anakin, but the tool that is Vader. there is no true relationship. Additionally, Vader is subordinate to Sidious per rule of two. They are not meant to be "allies", but adversaries to ensure the strength of the Sith. Lastly, the light within Anakin was severely dimmed when he became Vader. He had slain children, his master had "betrayed" him, and the love of his life, whom he would betray the Order for, had died.

There are a couple big things at play here: 1. Even when defending the Earth, Goku usually doesn't start the fight seriously. It's usually implied that Goku spends at least a portion of the battle holding back and testing his opponent to get an idea of their capabilities before seriously attacking. Other fighters tend to do something similar. This has both personal enjoyment reasons (most of the fighters enjoy actually fighting, particularly Goku who is a fighter first, and a hero second) and serious reasons. At the start of the battle each fighter is trying to determine just how powerful and what capabilities their opponent has. Both fighters usually begin the battle in a suppressed power state masking their full capacity. Without knowing what their opponent can do they might waste power, particularly relevant versus weaker foes who are being fought prior to a major enemy, but also versus a major enemy who might be capable of dodging an opening finisher. 2. Opening with a game ending Ki blast is risky. Powerful attacks often have a period of charging which telegraphs the technique, and this is further exacerbated by the fact that even attacks with little to no chargeup time can be avoided. Further, full powered Ki blasts, unlike punches and kicks, seem to use up considerable amounts of endurance. It's usually after using one of these finishing techniques that characters tend to state that they've lost a substantial amount of energy. Not going all in before you've put your opponent in a position where they have to take/oppose the attack insures you don't spend your energy pointlessly. Also if you miss, if you're a good guy at least, you have to make sure your ultimate attack isn't going to hit the planet.

Evolving requirements. The initial launch of clonetroopers came from and were at least in part trained by -- or had their training regimens shaped by -- Jango Fett. Their armor bears many similarities to his own armor, no doubt due in part to the nature of what he was accustomed and trained to do. Fast-forward over the course of the Clone War and the initial launch of the clones has now had time to identify field-tested flaws in the original armor design. In order to ensure maximum effectiveness of its troops, the Republic continually refines the armor to account for these deficiencies and also to build-in new features that troops may find useful as the war progresses. During the Imperial transition period, purpose-grown and designed clonetroopers saw decreasing use in favor of somewhat more conventionally sourced and trained stormtroopers. The Clone War was over; the stormtroopers' purpose wasn't fighting a massive symmetric war, but rather peacekeeping and asymmetric warfare against guerrilla resistance forces. This calls for different equipment, too. War armor doesn't provide what stormtroopers generally need. And, to be clear, what we see in documentary footage is fairly *atypical* of the usual stormtrooper assignments; the Rebellion was *tiny* in comparison to the breadth of security responsibilities the Empire faced. The same is largely true for ships. A space superiority fighter you purpose-build to fight droid fighters just doesn't have the same requirements as an all-around, quick-deployment, high-mobility fighter. That exact same purpose mismatch travels all the way up the chain to the star dreadnought super ships like *Executor*.

The light comes from the upper layers of the sun. They shine because they're hot, just like lightbulbs and toasters do. The sun is so bright because at 5500 °C/ 9900 F, the effect is pretty big, and the sun's photosphere is more than 100 kilometers thick, all of which is shining. That adds up. You may hear people say stuff about photons from nuclear fusion in the core. ~~Don't believe them.~~ Read their comments with polite skepticism. That is not the light that reaches your eyes. Underneath the photosphere, the gas doesn't really let any light through. If you are interested in where stars get their energy from, you should read those comments, though. *Edit: phrasing*

It works to a degree, because the cloth filters out some of the particulate matter - that's all smoke is at the end of the day - airborne particles as a byproduct of combustion. BUT, there is a diminishing return with them - same reason dust masks are disposable and shouldn't be reused. A filter will block some of what you're breathing in, but over time they get clogged with crap, so it actually concentrates what you're trying to avoid. Ditto with things like water filters - at first they filter out the shit you don't want in your water, but after a while they've got that much shit in them that they make the water quality worse.

A lot of materials have a yield stress. Including paper. When enough force is applied, the stress in the paper can exceed its yield stress. From that point on the material is plasticly deformed, which means when you stop applying force, the paper will not bend back into its original shape.

Part of life is accepting who you are. This goes double for the professor who regularly is seen in public arenas and by prospective students and their parents. It would not do well to be seen as Robot Xavier. He could switch back and forth between the chair and robotic appendages, but he's found contentment with his current situation, and he even draws some reflective thoughts on how he came to be in his current situation by allowing it to be a reminder and perhaps even penance for past choices.

A lumen is the total amount of light coming from a source; its "luminous power." It's equivalent to Watts, the measure of power, but weighted for human vision, e.g., an infra red lamp could put out 100 Watts but, if we can't see it it would be producing zero lumens. It's a similar idea to the special A-weighted decibel scale ("dBA") for sound that only considers sound pitches that people can hear. A candela is based on lumens but takes into account how focused the light is. A plain 1000 lumen light bulb will spread its light evenly in every direction giving about 80 candelas of "luminous intensity" (you divide by 4×π because that's the surface area of a unit sphere). Or you could have a 1000 lumen flash-light that sends almost all its light in one direction, giving off 1000 or even 10000 candela, but only directly in front. The extreme example is a focused laser beam which can have very high candela ratings with very low lumens.

Theoretically over time and if the night lasts forever yes. But keep in mind that he has been absorbing sunlight for decades so he has more than enough power inside him to last an entire night fighting.

This is actually a major reason for both Wolverine's strength and athleticism, since the adamantium coating his skeleton happens to add just over a hundred pounds onto his frame; he'd weigh 195 without it. Because he's hauling that extra weight, his body is constantly healing his muscles to make him strong enough to compensate; he can lift 800lbs with effort, but is also stunting his growth and height.

Because he isn't taking something tangible doesn't mean he isn't taking something that belongs to someone else. Intellectual property has value, and it has an ownership, and that owner should have the full to do with it what they want. Is it ok the NSA takes people's information? They're not taking anything physical from them, so they're not really losing anything by them operating. Maybe sometimes they do tap in through backdoors in software that we were trying to keep private(keygens), but c'mon, we have so much public information on social media(free alternatives) that they would get our information regardless. But hey, they can actually help. They can just let other government agents(friends) know if anything is interesting about this person(product). Intellectual property, even though it cannot be felt with the hands, has a value, and a value people hold closely and deeply. Taking other people's stuff, REGARDLESS of what happens to them, is STILL taking other people's stuff!

Servicing captured equipment is annoying at best and impossible at worst. Part of the Germans' logistical problems in World War 2 was that their trucks were scavenged and stolen from so many places that nothing was interoperable and they lacked the ability to source spare parts for many vehicles. This led to absurd attrition rates. That was with the equipment of the 1940s. Star Wars takes place in a fantastical space opera setting, where the complexity of the technology being used is impossibly far ahead of even what we have now. Using captured equipment for anything other than one-time, specific uses is just not feasible.

Depends on how hypoglycemic you were and for how long. Severe hypoglycemia causes the same type of brain injury that hypoxia does. Brain cells need oxygen and glucose to function take away one or the other it’s the same result. Even a single hypoglycemic episode can cause severe brain damage (or death). Having repeated episodes can be similar to having multiple small strokes where you have actual death of brain cells.

Curiosity found clay minerals on Mars a few years back. We've gone back and forth about whether they could have formed without water, though other evidence for water on Mars does point to it once being a much wetter planet, probably with a global ocean early on its history.

Mentally, elves actually develop more quickly than humans; for example, elves learn to walk and speak before they're a year old. Physically, they age at the same rate as humans until around the age of 3, after which their growth slows greatly. Elves only finish growing between the ages of 50 and 100.

Genetically, they don't. In practice, a twin is a birth defect that causes one fertilized egg to grow into two people, and a clone would be a person grown from an already-born person's DNA, probably not taken from their reproductive organs.

He’s still a cop, and a sergeant, so keep that in mind up top. “Desk duty” could mean any number of things, and as a sergeant, Al’s scope of responsibilities could entail stuff that is mostly desk-adjacent, sure. But he’s still a cop with a radio that has to leave the station sometimes. In most major American cities like Los Angeles, a police sergeant has something akin to operational authority to make judgement calls on the scene. So the fact that he gets the call and is giving orders before deputy police chief Duane Robinson arrived is no oversight. So Al could have just been on the way home (from, say, desk duty in the robbery unit) and dispatch saw him in a squad car nearby. Being a sergeant, he’s the ideal option for checking out a suspicious though serious hostage and gunfire call, and making the determination on-site if more backup is needed. That’s a no-brainer for dispatch. And remember, he said himself he was just on his way home when the call came in, so he wasn’t on patrol, really. Just the right guy at the right spot at the right time (like “Roy”)

Given that Cell is an amalgamation of the Z fighters DNA, he's inherited a lot of their strengths, but also weaknesses. His major fatal flaw was his pride/confidence in his own superiority (Thanks Vegeta). Despite his minor curiosity, he just didn't care enough to really look into it. In his mind, he's the perfect being and no one could EVER stand a chance against him. So why would he go through the trouble of sneaking a peak at their training? Plus, he had other Cell things to do, like flexing and stuff, probably.

Kal-El is not the last descendant of Rao - he may however be the last **pure-blood** descendant, whatever that means in Kryptonian culture. If it's anything like Egyptian pure-blood descendants of Ra, Kara probably doesn't qualify due to her mother not being a close enough relative of the house of El - IOW she's insufficiently inbred.

In some cases it's considered a SYMPTOM of an eating disorder, but remember, not all obesity is caused by over eating. even if ALL obesity were caused by overeating, obesity itself would still not be an eating disorder. it would be a symptom of an eating disorder.

In the early 19th century, intellectuals and those well-traveled would often drop French words into the conversation to show how clever they were. They would then point out that the word they had just used was French, often to embarrass someone nearby who was less fluent in the language. To counter this, the less well-traveled (often poorer) people would, after swearing, loudly proclaim, towards those that had previously used French in the conversation, "Pardon *my* French." The latter stuck.

Profanity comes from the assumption that something upheld is being debased. Curse words can come from a few places, but using words with deep seated cultural connotations force you to see it as vulgar when used in certain situations. This is because it crosses a boundary, it's taboo, it shows disrespect and people find disrespect insulting. Hitler wouldn't have the same effect because we are not "bringing it down" when using it as an exclamation.

A person who truly wants to die will just do it. They won't threaten to do it or tell a bunch of people. They'll just get it done. Saying that you want to die is a cry for help. If they are telling you it's very likely that they want you to try to help them change their mind. Even if they don't realize that's what's happening.

Are we in space or on earth? The sun transmits heat via radiation (vs convection or conduction). The amount of energy transmitted follows an inverse square law (1/x^2) so if you are twice as close to the sun, you experience 4 times the energy transfer. You have a LOT of variables to consider if you are in space. What is the suit made out of? does it reflect heat back? how does it conduct heat to your body? The amount of energy transferred also depends on the difference in temperature of the two bodies. In short, you need to define a lot more variables before you can get a viable answer. What is considered to be a "noticeable change", what sort of vehicle are you in? what is the vehicle made of?

Pretty quickly IMO. It's his word against Scar's, who was never popular to begin with, and only had an alliance with the hyenas on the promise they'd have prime access to food when he's king. Mufasa has the whole of the pride on his side. Knowing Mufasa, he probably wouldn't have Scar killed even after a murder attempt, but would have him exiled. Mufasa's injuries would probably last his entire life, and he would be more dependent on the pride to do anything physical for him until Simba came of age. Simba would grow up to be suspicious, colder, practical (think Stannis Baratheon).

Well the Triassic was immediately following the Great Dying, 90% of life was gone, so you wouldn’t see much of anything at first. Then you’d see more Lystrasauros (sp?) which weren’t dinosaurs but rather some of the last of the Mammal like Reptiles. They were really the first animals to recover and were everywhere. Then you start seeing a rising group of reptiles, the archosaurs, the precursors to crocodiles on the one hand, and dinosaurs on the other. After that the first small dinosaurs start appearing, as do mammals. At the end of the Triassic there’s another extinction event that kills off the rest of the mammal like reptiles and the large archosaurs, but the dinosaurs thrive and dominate. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous they’re ubiquitous.

A magnetic field is like waves hitting the beach. A normal hard drive is like drawing your data into the sand. The data is washed away by the waves, because they move the sand. A solid state drive is like drawing your data with little stones. They aren't moved by the waves, so they wont be affected by the waves.

Your gut just lacks the enzymes to process the lactose, the bacteria that then meet the undigested lactose produce a bunch of nasty byproducts as they make efforts to devour the sugar. They produce lots of gas and the bacteria for the most part can't really handle it so the material just kinda gets shoved along the digestive tract as your bowels become filled with gas(at a rapid rate), causing diarrhea

"Alcohol" is a general term for a group of organic substances. There are a lot of them and almost all alcohols are poison for the human body. However, at some point in time people found out that beer tastes well, and over the course of many generations a pretty good resistance to a single alcohol that is called ethanol was developed (hurray to the liver). So only one Alcohol is somewhat safe for consumption **in very small quantities**, which has its reason in ancient human culture, all the other ones really are not (a few ml of methanol will blind you, a few more will kill you, for starters).

Well not all stars die out through supernovae and we think that only one star in the milky way goes supernova every 50 years or so. It's not all that common. Given the number of stars visible from Earth, we're probably capable of detecting supernovae pretty often, but most just occur too far from Earth to be seen without powerful telescopes.

The planets conserve their initial angular momentum. Uranus and Venus have opposite rotation from the rest of the planets. This is due to the impacts by asteroids in the early years of their formation. These impacts have probably reversed their rotational direction.

Credit card companies make money in 2 main ways; 1) If you do not pay of the balance at the end of every payment period (usually a month, but there might be cards with other terms), they can charge interest. Usually this is a rather high rate. 2) Companies that want to accept payments from credit cards must pay the credit card companies for this. For this reason credit card companies give you gifts for using their cards. If you want those rewards, you'll use your credit card more often, which means companies must pay your credit card company more.

Eye movement is one of the most complicated aspects of the nervous system. There are 6 main muscles and 3 main nerves that control each eye around 3 axes. As others are saying it's very common for the left eye to look right and the right eye to look left at the same time (i.e. cross-eyed)—this happens when we look at something close to us and is called convergence. However, we are generally not able to make the left eye look left and the right eye look right at the same time. This is due to a connection in the brainstem called the medial longitudinal fasiculus (MLF). This is a difficult ELI5. If you want your left eye to look left, you need the left lateral rectus muscle, which is controlled by the left abducens nerve (cranial nerve VI). If you want your right eye to look left, you need the right medial rectus muscle, which is controlled by the right oculomotor nerve (cranial nerve III). The MLF runs from the abducens nucleus on one side to the oculomotor nucleus on the other side and is activated whenever the brain activates the abducens nerve, so when your brain sends a signal to look left with your left eye, your right eye also gets a signal to look left. Thus in people who are neurologically intact, when one eye moves outwards, the other eye essentially always follows. The MLF specifically can be affected by a variety of neurologic disorders, classically multiple sclerosis.

The best answer to this question for me is simply that those things are considered to be more important because people who enjoy both type of things, recognize that intelectual pursuits are more meaningful to their lives than masturbating. They also masturbate and enjoy themselves doing it, but recognize that it is a far less transcendent pleasure. In a similar way, a dog may look at your passion for video games and wonder what's so special about video games, when you can run around in the park all day. However, you know the dog would think this because the dog is not intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the complexity involved in playing video games. If he had the capacity and willingness to invest time in video games, he would probably end up finding video games more important than running in the park, because video games stimulate more developed parts of the brain. But, in the end of the day, if you don't like video games, that's fine. If you don't enjoy philosophy that's fine. To each his own.

Postdoc was fine -largely like an extended PhD although this depends mostly on what your PhD was like and how much academic freedom you're used to. Tenure track is an unending hell, where you switch from grant deadlines, to brief moments of research, to service and to teaching. The pressure continues to be largely self inflicted. But everything takes up so much time.

From the perspective of an evolutionary psychologist these different behaviours from men and women with regard to finding sexual partners are cognitive biases and adaptive behaviours. They aren't rules created by humans that are unique in humans. Many other species have similar behaviours where the male pursues the female. In these species the cost of baring a child is disproportionately on the female because she has to undergo a gestation period and often raises the offspring. This means that the repercussions for poorly choosing a mate are more costly for the female than they are for the male. If a female makes a bad choice of mate, she is stuck with the responsibility of gestation and raising sub par genetics whereas if the male made a poor choice he just moves on to the next female. As a result of the disproportionate costs of poorly judging the quality of a mate, females tend to be more cautious and conservative whereas males will rarely pass up an opportunity for sex. In humans, specific cognitive biases have been identified. Women tend to underestimate a man's commitment and men tend to overestimate a woman's interest. By the way, monogamy or being lifelong partners is also an adaptive behaviour found in many species. The idea that it is purely a human social construct is ignorant. This is because while a male might pass on his genetics by sex alone, the survival rate of his offspring will continue to rise if he helps to raise them. The chances of his offspring having more offspring will also increase and that is the ultimate goal (perpetuating your genes).

There's a few factors. Cotton went to war at 14 and isn't very well adjusted emotionally. He doesn't just struggle with emotional intimacy, he has contempt for it. Cotton dragged his ready-to-pop pregnant wife to a Yankees game as camouflage for an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. Hank ended up being born in New York City in the ladies room of Yankee Stadium and Cotton hates this. He knows it's his fault that Hank wasn't "born a Texan" but still takes it out on him. It's been shown on a few occasions that Cotton doesn't REALLY hate Hank, like when President Jimmy Carter got him to admit it. He's still an angry old SOB though.

Heimdall was probably monitoring the situation and telling Odin that everything was cool. Keep in mind that up until Ronan arrived Earth wasn't really in too much danger, and when he did appear Captain Marvel already had everything under control.

Wireless charging is done through induction. When you run and electrical current through a coiled wire, you generate a magnetic field around it. Conversely, when a coiled wire experiences a change in the local magnetic field, it generates a current. So your charger runs an alternating current (AC) through a coiled wire. This generates a rapidly changing magnetic field. Your phone has a wire coil in its induction charger "module". This wire experiences the changes in magnetic field, which generate a current in the wire. This current is then used to charge the battery. The reason why we can't use this everywhere is that the power you can transfer with this method doesn't reach very far. Also, the more of these changing fields you have going around, the more likely for something else to be impacted, since this will induce currents in any wire coils, even if in other electronics.

He can use them, but everything is set how he likes it. Remember how mad you dad got when you messed with his car seat, adjusted his wheel, or fucked with the radio levels? Now, Imagine your dad was burn to a crisp, and able to kill with a thought. Needless to say, his buttons don't get messed with often.

The Ghost Rider can ride anything to get from point A to point B. A previous one even had a horse as a mode of transportation. It's perfectly reasonable to use a Yugo, a pogo stick, a spaceship, or a ford pinto as the Ghost Rider and have it undergo the expected transformations.

Learned helplessness is esentially when you try something and either fail or are told you failed so many times that you stop trying. A great example from the animal world is that young elephants are often chained with an ankle restraint to a pole. They learn that that ankle restraint is strong enough to stop them from moving. When they get older they still think this. You will sometimes see at circuses full grown elephants with ankle chains tied to a stake that could never restrain a full size elephant. But they don't try because they have been taught it isn't going to work. One big area of child development is in growth vs fixed mindset. Fixed mindset is the idea that you are either good at something or you aren't. If a kid is told enough times that they are dumb, they will believe it. They won't try. They'll fet bad grades because they didn't try. Bad grades reinforce what they'd been told. (Ironically, being told you are smart too much can lead to totally different issues and anxieties). Growth mindset on the other hand emphasizes effort and improvement. You did well on the test, you must have worked hard. You didn't do well, you can do better next time with more effort, etc. It emphasizes success as a process, and one driven by internal effort (not ignoring that it can be aided no doubt by some people's natural abilities and hindered by natural disabilities) and one that can therefore be changed in the future for better or worse through effort.

It is only by preference. Most of the continents are in the North part of the globe. Mapping software can now make maps with any orientation. You can use Google Earth to show you the world oriented in any direction. Producers of maps are taught to include a directional sign, usually North, on the map to help with orientation. But so many maps are now made by people who are not professional cartographers that this tradition is fading.

Boxers want to box someone their own weight (or smaller). The weigh-in occurs many hours before the fight. What can happen is, a 165-lb boxer can sweat out 13 lbs to make the weigh-in limit of 152 lbs, then eat and drink themselves back to their normal weight of 165 before the actual fight. If his opponent really is 152 lbs then he's now at a disadvantage. A rehydration clause puts a limit on how much a boxer's weight is allowed to increase between official weigh-in and the actual fight.

Someone else can explain the “blame all for one” issue. But I’ll add you’re asking “Islamic scholars — professors and interpreters — and preachers — to condemn how one government that adheres by its definition of the minority sect’s view of Islam enforces its criminal laws. Shiite Islam is massive, but Shia and Sunni Muslims highly distrust each other’s interpretations of scripture and history. They do not even agree who succeeded Muhammad. Shia Islamic national law isn’t isolated to Iran. How can you pin a religious police force’s execution of a law in one country on more than a billion Muslims.

Well aside from the whole "O shit that hurt!" part of the brain when you take a massive body shot. It's also a biological reaction. When you receive that kind of trauma to the internal organs. You're body reflexively goes into survival mode. As it's not sure exactly what the hell just happened. So it ramps up blood production to start healing or clotting blood if it needs to and it's starts loading those new blood cells with more O2 to aide in this process. It also starts to constrict the blood vessels of the extremities to increase blood flow to the torso and the vital organs of the body. A similar process to that of hypothermia. It then decides that the "pain" is to distracting so it starts shutting down nerve function and your receptors. So fundamentally, your legs and arms lose circulation briefly, reducing the O2 to those cells and nerves and then the nerves that are really important to, you know muscles movement and stuff are turned off. You body doesn't know your a dumb ass boxer. It's just knows, "Holy flippin' hell something just hit the crap outta us! Save all the inside stuff, toes are for CHUMPS!" Is basically what happens.

[](/rscootaplease) Rowena Ravenclaw didn't care about security so much as keeping the dimwits out. The other founders all played their political games and tried to keep one another from learning their secrets, but Ravenclaw just wanted to create a sanctuary for the clever and the wise. It didn't really matter to her whether those clever and wise people were in her own House or in Gryffindor, though of course nowadays an intruder to the Ravenclaw common room would get in a lot of trouble if caught.

Because Palpatine's ultimately in charge of both sides, and he doesn't *want* to win any battles. What he wants to spread chaos and destabilize the republic so he can later swoop in and reform it into the empire. For this to work, obviously, the republic can't win. Then they've stabilized and all is fine. But they can't lose either- his whole plan is based around his power as senator, and the occupation and dissolving of the government where senators are a thing would obviously put a stop to that. No, what *he* wants is bloody, horrifying battles with massive death tolls that fail to accomplish any tactical objectives, spreading terror and damaging infrastructure but not actually bringing the war any closer to an end. So he gets the generals to go for terrible tactics- maybe by ensuring idiots and minions are promoted, maybe by spreading convincing sounding but terrible military theory, maybe just old fashioned corruption. There's lots of ways to subvert a military. Come the later movies, of course, both sides *are* trying to win, so they use real tactics. But here, it's not a real war. It's a ploy by someone playing both sides, and he's trying to make sure it goes as long and as bloodily as possible before he makes his play.

It means that a fertilized egg often is not sufficient to be pregnant. Many pregnancies do not get to the stage of an implanted egg and many of those that manage to implant in the uterus still do not get past the 8th week. Basically, there are so many things that can go wrong between intercourse and birth it is a wonder any kids are born at all (and healthy ones at that) :-). If the pill works correctly, though, there should be no egg ready to be fertilized present. However, if one happens to be fertilized, the pill inhibits an implantation. So, yes, the pill has a tiny chance to abort a fertilized egg even if by most definitions this would not be seen as an abortion as the pregnancy had not *really* started in the sense that you are not immediately pregnant after an IVF procedure....

Basically the ring subjects its wielder too intense subliminal brainwashing. When Sauron and made the One Ring he put a part of himself into it which is why it could only be destroyed in the fires that made it and when it was destroyed it killed Sauron. That bit of Sauron slowly eats away at you compelling you to act towards his benefit with the ultimate goal of making it back to Sauron. The longer you have it in your possession the stronger that becomes. Even more so if like Frodo Bilbo and Gollum you put it on.

Easy, he's an early 40k psyker. Before the Age of Strife, most humanoid Psykers were unheard of, but there were dog psykers before since they had been a species for much longer. Using psychic power from the early Warp, he is able to take control of the computer's machine spirit. Yeah, that's how it goes.

You forget they are standing arguing in the jewelry store for a bit. There's probably a fair amount of water left in the air there as that store wasnt on fire. He probably just needed the water to kickstart his powers with a little bit of hydration.

There's nothing directly keeping phones from getting thinner. There's a number of things that will make it unlikely anybody would decide to, though-- the biggest of which is probably the camera. Cameras are effectively setting the phone thickness limit right now, to the point where the common design workaround is to make the camera stick out. Without the camera, you could take all the parts in a modern phone and lay them out so it was even thinner. Even something like the new iPhones could be thinned out-- their innards are still a sandwich of multiple layers. At a very simple level, you could just put the battery, screen, and mainboard next to eachother instead of on top of eachother. The result might be ugly and wide and so forth-- but it would be substantially thinner than currently without having to even invent anything new.

This is correct - a telescope that is currently 100 light-years away from Earth would see Earth as it was 100 years ago...but there are a few caveats: - First, you'd need a big telescope - like, *really* big. To even see the Earth near the Sun, you'd require a telescope hundreds of times larger than anything that's ever been built. As it stands, the planned James Webb Space Telescope could not spot an Earth-sized planet 1 AU (the Earth-Sun distance) from our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and 100 light-years is about 25 times further. - Second, seeing Earth as anything more than a single pixel would require another few orders of magnitude in telescope size. - Third, you couldn't carry a telescope out to that distance from Earth to see into our planet's past, because the trip would take greater than 100 years. (since you are confined to speeds less than the speed of light).

Because most American citizens have very little idea of how their government actually works, and how limited the president's power is, domestically and economically. The president is the most well-known governmental figure, and it's a lot simpler to blame him than to go watch C-SPAN or check voting records and see that it's actually your representatives and senators who are screwing you, in many cases, *specifically* because they know you'll blame Obama for it and they want his approval rating to go down.

Before tv series there were movies and before movies there were plays, before plays there was your buddy telling you what was going through his head earlier when you both were at that thing. Its called an "aside". As in taking the audience aside to fill them in on more details. He's not breaking the fourth wall, he remains in his own universe. You are the one who has left yours.

There is a form of male birth control accomplished through a vasectomy. This is the equivalent to a female having her fallopian tubes tied. If you are referring to hormonal methods of birth control, the reason why none are used for men is about the side effects. In the female menstrual cycle, estrogen and progesterone control ovulation - by artificially manipulating these levels "the pill" prevents the maturation of the ovum. If androgen deprivation were used on men (decreasing testosterone and inhibiting sperm growth) they would experience severe side effects, such as impaired muscle maintenance, increased bone fragility, sensitivity to heat and the onset of other "female" traits. This isn't to say that "the pill" does not come with its host of side effects, but these are generally observed as more tolerable.

All orks possess a low level of psychic ability that contributes to the gestalt psychic field. This means that the larger the assembly of orks, the more psychic power there is to create effects that mirror what the orks expect. For example, a small band of a few dozen orks might paint their trukk red because they believe that red ones go faster. They will be able to channel enough energy to actual make a red trukk go slightly faster than other trukks of similar make. On the more extreme end, a space hulk with a massive greenskin infestation may have orks walking on its surface without void suits because they forgot that they need to breathe. It's the psychic field that is keeping them alive in that case. There is also a caste of orks that woeld psychic abilities, called weirdboys. They are able to channel the energy of the psychic field into the material world intentionally to create a multitude of desired effects.

Staining isnt the only reason teeth turn yellow. Enamel is white-ish but it's not completely opaque. Dentin, the material underneath your enamel is naturally yellow, aging and natural wear thins your enamel making the dentin more visible. If you brush too hard you could just end up stripping away more enamel resulting in even yellower teeth.

A Sith Lord is trained as a Sith Lord. He or she learns not only the Force, but a certain code of ethics as well, questionable as they may be. Someone who uses the Dark Side of the Force is just someone who has figured out how to use the Dark Side of the Force. Most likely, they were trained, at least to some degree, by Jedi, but chose not to follow their code.

Machine-made generally means something that's designed for mass manufacturing. There are shortcuts in the design, because it has to be efficient to manufacture in quantity. The materials involved also have to be suitable for mass manufacturing and, ideally, inexpensive. A good craftsman can do much better work. This involves skill, time, and generally better materials, because there's no point in wasting skill and time on inferior work.

Insulin levels rise and fall depending on your sleep schedule. Leading to hunger and fasting. In fact recent research in mice showed those mice that only ate during "mouse day time" for a set amount of time. 8 to 12 hrs. Maintained weight better then those who forged anytime.

simplest straight lines are a taut string or a flat water surface. early surfaces were just created by hand. our precision has increased over time. we never hit perfectly straight, just straight enough to suffice.

It takes a lot of work. Consoles tend to have less power than PCs and each of the major consoles uses a different operating system. PC and Xbox share a lot of internal code, but PCs have thousands of combinations of parts, compared to the consoles all using the same processors. For a small studio this is a lot of work. In general game companies have two options: make a game run okay on all platforms or really well on one. I’m a PC gamer, but I’m shocked at how well God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn run on the PS4. Knowing exactly what hardware your game will run on is a major help to optimization. And also, game companies sometime sign contractors to only release on a single console. Sony may pay a company a million to not sell their game on the Xbox. Or in the case of Bethesda: Microsoft owns them, so they’ll be making almost exclusively PC and Xbox games from now on. There you go, it takes a lot of people and time to make a good cross platform game, and there’s a lot of money involved in keeping games from getting ported.

It depends on the game. Minecraft will draw frames as often as your GPU and your monitor can handle, but the physics system only "ticks" once every 1/20th of a second. Time happens in 50 ms slices. If you and a friend both hit two buttons to start two redstone clocks at the same time to within a few milliseconds then they will be perfectly simultaneous. If you are interested in breaking things for fun or testing purposes then the weirdness of discrete time is a good place to start looking for bugs.

Fire powers. Like... yeah, if you had Human Torch level immunity or Pyro's manipulation, it could be awesome! But if you had Avatar level fire bending, you're more than likely going to end up burning everything and everyone around you. Also, power copying or cancelling... not only is it lame for stories, but if no one else had powers, you're just a fucking muggle. Flight has a lot of inherent problems that would limit your ability unless you had other abilities to compensate for the temperature, pressure, oxygen levels, collisions, and it's basically useless unless you can fly at a velocity (at least) comparable to your fastest running speeds.

Well, even a really great mirror isn't 100% reflective, so it will always absorb some of the light. If you pump strong enough, yes, you'll start to heat up the mirror faster than it can dissipate the heat and eventually it will melt. Another thing to consider is that the reflectivity of a surface depends heavily on the wavelength of light. A mirror that might be reflective to visible light, say 99% reflective, might only be 5% reflective to infrared light. So if you were trying to build an anti-missile laser or a laser-proof missile hull, for example, you'd want to take that into account.

Some of them (the nice, expensive ones) do have a single LED, such as Mag-Lite. Low-output LEDs are much less expensive to produce, so cheap flashlights often will have 25-50 of them (a dead giveaway is their very bluish tint); their overall light output is typically less than those with a single LED. When purchasing, look for how many lumens the flashlight produces, not how many LEDs; more lumens = brighter.

Fear is generally a learned response in humans rather than being present from birth. Whenever a human is observing another human as being a role model, the observer sees the response taken by the role model, and is more likely to recreate that response in the future. Because of this, it's easy to pass on your fear of bugs to another person, as long as that person's subconscious processing thinks you are worth learning from. On the other hand, some fears are present from birth as a defensive response to tell an animal to run away when presented with a dangerous situation. Most animals don't fear bugs simply because bugs don't do anything to the animal. But if you put a cucumber behind a cat while it's eating, it will panic and run away because it is born with a fear of snakes, and the cat's innate processing mistakes the cucumber for a threat. It's likely that our original fear of bugs did come from the knowledge that certain bugs can have bad or even deadly effects on us, which then spread the mentality that we should be afraid of all bugs. For an animal to fear that same bug, it would have to be because of a survival instinct, unless the animal somehow also learned to fear bugs. Edit: apparently the cucumber/snake thing with cats may not be 100% scientific, but it was the first example that came to mind when thinking of innate fears.

The imbalance came about because, through Palpatine's machinations, the Dark side had grown incredibly powerful, blinding the Jedi and other servants of the Light to his intentions, and even some of his actions. The Light was crippled by bureaucracy, negligence, tradition, politics, and a slew of other things. The Dark side had no such impediments: the Chancellor (or Emperor) made the rules. The (first) death of the Emperor by Anakin's hand brought balance to the Force. It put a stop to the Sith, at least in that one moment. The Emperor was dead, Anakin turned back towards the light, and all that was left of the Sith were a few scattered apprentices. When Luke put together the new Jedi Order, that allowed the Light side to grow and dominate, and thus they were able to fight the Sith on almost equal footing. Yes, the Imperial remnant fought on, and yes, Palpatine kept playing the part of the mole in a game of whack-a-mole, but the Jedi weren't as blind anymore. They didn't have to hide. At times, they even had the entire Republic behind them. Knowledge and training in the Force was allowed to grow and diversify. It wasn't a perfect balance, but it was better than the utter oppression of the Force that existed under Palpatine's rule.

Something that is not brought up in many of the comments here is that life did not develop using molecular oxygen (O2) at all. The large concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere is actually the result of biological activity (carbon fixation from CO2 and reduction of iron oxide before that) and not a prerequisite for it.

If you can actually contact Galactus, you're pretty much halfway there. He's been known to force Heraldry onto various people, causing them to lose their memory and only want to serve him. If you simply ask, it's very possible he'll say yes if he doesn't currently have a Herald or has one that's openly defying him.

Humidity plays a big part in temp perception. In the winter, outside colder air cannot hold the same amount of humidity as hotter summer air, so typically your house, while the same temp, has less humidity. Even if you have a humidifier, it's tough to match the potentional summer air humidity. That difference eventually makes it into your house. The lower the humidity, the more moisture evaporates on your skin, making you feel cooler despite the temp at the thermostat saying the same.

Eating or drinking something kick your digestive tract into motion. Lots of enzymes start squirting into your intestines. Lots of muscle contractions from your stomach to your butthole getting things moving along. Some chemicals in food (caffeine in particular) are *really* stimulating to your intestinal muscles. When those start working overtime, you suddenly get the urge to go, like, now.

The Title IX office should eat the first department alive for their egregious behavior. Given the loss of publications, you have material damages. Are you sure everyone in the first department agreed with the decisions pushed by the chair? You may come out fine if it's just the old misogynistic bullies that are against you

the other three fundamental forces are gauge theories, meaning that they also admit a "geometrical" formulation similar to, but not equal, that for gravity given by general relativity. There are immense similarities between the other three interactions and gravity. Moreover, the geometric picture and the field picture (the one with the gauge bosons) are really equivalent - barring some global subtleties. Finally, the unification of gravity with the other forces is almost a necessity, not just something that would be nice. It is likely necessary to build a consistent theory of quantum gravity. We write gravity and the other forces in all possible equivalent ways so that it's easier to understand possible connections when studying theories of everything. For example, understanding how gravity unavoidably arises as the theory of a spin-2 massless boson (the graviton) made it really easy at the time to recognize that string theory included gravitation. (btw, the weak force has three bosons, and the strong force has eight)